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Identification of Property Boundaries Using an IFC-Based Cadastral Database

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, United Kingdom, Mexico, Malta, Malaysia, Panama, Romania, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America
boundaries
property
Property boundaries have a significant importance in cadaster as they define the legal extent of the ownership rights. Among 3D data models, Industry Foundation Class (IFC) provides the potential capabilities for modelling property boundaries in a 3D environment. In some jurisdictions, such as Victoria, Australia, some property boundaries are assigned to the faces of building elements which are modelled as solids in IFC. In order to retrieve these property boundaries, boundary identification analysis should be performed, and faces of building elements should be extracted.
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Estimating the Willingness to Pay for Tenure Security in Brazilian Favelas

Reports & Research
January, 2017
Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico, United States of America
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
tenure security
This paper examines willingness to pay for housing tenure security in favelas in six Brazilian states, Ceara, Paraiba, Pernambuco and in the north-east, Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo in the south-east, and Rio Grande do Sul in the south, using data from the national household survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicilios, PNAD) for 2002.
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Land Degradation Neutrality in Small Island Developing States

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2019
Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Cape Verde, Antigua and Barbuda, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Guyana, Suriname, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, Samoa
Land & Investments
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
land degradation
land investments
private sector
Land degradation exacerbates the unique vulnerabilities of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to environmental challenges, such as climate change, flash floods, soil erosion, lagoon siltation, coastal erosion and sea level rise, undermining their economic potential. Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) contributes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in SIDS, preserving biodiversity and increasing resilience to climate change. Land degradation has a strong negative impact on climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture, water resources management and coastal zone management.
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Global Land Outlook: Latin America and the Caribbean Thematic Report: Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change Adaptation

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Central America, Guatemala, Mexico, South America, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land degradation
deforestation
land use
sustainable land management
The extensive arable land and great biodiversity present in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have the potential to ensure sustenance and a good quality of life for its more than 600 million inhabitants. LAC has experienced important changes in land use. When the Europeans arrived in the 15th century, the forest cover of LAC accounted for approximately 75 per cent of the territory.
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Land–Lake Linkage and Remote Sensing Application in Water Quality Monitoring in Lake Okeechobee, Florida, USA

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Argentina, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
monitoring
water
The state of water quality of lakes is highly related to watershed processes which will be responsible for the delivery of sediment, nutrients, and other pollutants to receiving water bodies. The spatiotemporal variability of water quality parameters along with the seasonal changes were studied for Lake Okeechobee, South Florida. The dynamics of selected four water quality parameters: total phosphate (TP), total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), total suspended solid (TSS), and chlorophyll-a (chl-a) were analyzed using data from satellites and water quality monitoring stations.
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Generative Learning for Postprocessing Semantic Segmentation Predictions: A Lightweight Conditional Generative Adversarial Network Based on Pix2pix to Improve the Extraction of Road Surface Areas

Volume 10 Issue 1

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Spain, Uruguay, United States of America, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
land
research
Remote sensing experts have been actively using deep neural networks to solve extraction tasks in high-resolution aerial imagery by means of supervised semantic segmentation operations. However, the extraction operation is imperfect, due to the complex nature of geospatial objects, limitations of sensing resolution, or occlusions present in the scenes.
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Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2018
South America, Central America, Caribbean, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
assessment
biodiversity
climate change
environment
food security
land governance
water
Internal climate migrants are rapidly becoming the human face of climate change. According to this new World Bank report, without urgent global and national climate action, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America could see more than 140 million people move within their countries’ borders by 2050.
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Informe del Seminario Regional sobre Metropolización y Medio Ambiente = Report of the Regional Seminar on Metropolitanization and Environment

Seminario Regional sobre Metropolización y Medio Ambiente

Conference Papers & Reports
April, 1982
Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, South America, Central America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
environment
urban planning
Presenta la organizacion de los trabajos, las conclusiones y recomendaciones del seminario.
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Modeling residential development in California from 2000 to 2050: Integrating wildfire risk, wildland and agricultural encroachment

Land Use Policy Volume 41

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2014
Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development
encroachment
land use
research
sustainable land management
Between 1940 and 2000, nearly 10 million housing units were constructed throughout California. This increased interaction between human and natural communities creates a number of significant socio-ecological challenges. Here we present a novel spatially explicit model that allows better characterization of the extent and intensity of future housing settlements using three development scenarios between 2000 and 2050. We estimate that California's exurban land classes will replace nearly 12 million acres of wild and agricultural lands.
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Aerial river management by smart cross-border reforestation

Land Use Policy Volume 84

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2019
Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Venezuela
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forest management plans
forestry
land use
research
In the face of increasing socio-economic and climatic pressures in growing cities, it is rational for managers to consider multiple approaches for securing water availability. One often disregarded option is the promotion of reforestation in source regions supplying important quantities of atmospheric moisture transported over long distances through aerial rivers, affecting water resources of a city via precipitation and runoff (‘smart reforestation’). Here we present a case demonstrating smart reforestation’s potential as a water management option.